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wotswot Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 17, 2009 Posts: 57
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: please explain????? |
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hi, red light, gatso, mobile i understand... but who the hell is Truvelo & his m8's????? stupid i know!!! cheers............ |
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253 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 1058 Location: The green bit between the M40, M4 and M25.
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm no expert, but a quick stab at it.
truvelo is a forward facing camera designed to take pics of the front of the vehicle including driver. It's digital, so I suppose it doesn't need film etc. I understand it doesn't need to 'flash' in the normal sense when activated, and is activated by 'loops' or coils' in the road surface.
That's it, all I know, and I'm not sure how accurate it is. _________________ Triumph Tbird 1700. And now a Bonnie T100. |
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Daggers Lifetime Member
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 1096 Location: Solihull, UK
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Truvelo is another kind of fixed camera. Have a look at the bottom of tne camera submission page for photos of all the different types. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Truvelo is just another brand name, for a camera manufacturer.
Like "Hoover" has come to mean any vacuum cleaner, it has come to mean (as far as the database here is concerned), a front-facing camera that uses infra-red flash and sensor strips in the road. However, other manufacturers (even "Gatso") make a similar type of camera, and Truvelo may well make "Gatsos"!
As far as I know, the normal Truvelo camera isn't digital and DOES use film. It is the small cameras on tall poles that are digital and don't need film.
To confuse it even further, those digital cams are still referred to as "Monitrons" but the company got bought out by another one, "RedSpeed" who make the ones that do redlight offences AND speed checking).
"SPECS" are the average speed camera systems you see in roadworks and in the M25 gantries, and there are several other companies who are muscling in on the camera gravytrain, but they are all still going to be referred to by the generic names they have for the foreseeable future. |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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And all explained with photos on the Submit Cameras page here. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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wotswot Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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thanks Darren... you guys really are spot on |
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